Word: slickest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was the new government's first taste of what awaited it inside the palace, Haiti's seat of government. The ritzy residential floor, decorated by Michele Duvalier in the slickest French style of the late 1970s, had not been occupied since Aristide's quick exit in 1991 and was, according to a member of Aristide's kitchen cabinet, "unlivable" -- dusty and moldy and smelling faintly of sewage. The beautiful granite bathrooms had all been destroyed, their fixtures removed...
...body snatching began with pious denunciations of the decadent West in general and the U.S. in particular. The conclusion was strictly business. The last batch of hostages was traded for some of the Great Satan's slickest weapons, inventoried by U.S. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and routed to Iran through Israel with Ronald Reagan still reading the script: "No arms for hostages...
...body snatching began with pious denunciations of the decadent West in general and the U.S. in particular. The conclusion was strictly business. The last batch of hostages was traded for some of the Great Satan's slickest weapons, inventoried by Oliver North and routed to Iran through Israel with Ronald Reagan still reading the script: "No arms for hostages...
...slickest handlers in the world cannot turn that kind of performance into a showstopper. There are limits to what handlers can accomplish in any case -- especially in a volatile three-way race. They can advise a candidate on strategy, feed him sound bites and even choose his ties. But in the end, the public is going to measure the candidate alone...
Ambitious? You bet. Still just a snot-nosed Rhodes Scholar, Clinton lost that election. But only by a few points. He's been moving up ever since, as perhaps the slickest pol the Democrats have offered since...